1) I didn't say it was "character building." But tell me how enabling generations of welfare dependency is "character building."
2) The CRA of 64 didn't eliminate segregated bathroom facilities. Brown did.
3) The legislative solution, coming as it did ahead of the moral reformation, did nothing but create a climate of distrust between the races. Worse, it advanced the notion that moral problems could be solved by well-intentioned bureaucrats.
4) If you've got a point to make, make it without the sarcasm, or expect the same in return.
The distrust existed independent of Civil Rights legislation. Moral problems can't be entirely solved by law, but does that mean law should not take a moral stand before culture and individual behavior? By your reasoning, we should wait until abortions are no longer sought before passing a law against it, murder and theft should be things of the past before it is forbidden.